[ncc-services-wg] Plan to discontinue email signing from certain addresses

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 02:07:19PM +0200, Alex Band wrote:

> Signing emails from hostmaster at ripe.net, lir-help at ripe.net, new-lir at ripe.net and enum at ripe.net is one of the first pieces that we need to remove in order to phase out all the legacy software. While we realise that it is a best practice to sign such emails and are aware of the value it offers, we are planning to discontinue email signing from just these addresses starting 1 January 2014. It will allow us to phase out a part of our infrastructure that makes future migration a lot easier, while saving cost in the mean time. 

it isn't obvious to me whether this is a transitional step and what the
expected duration would be.  That said, reducing authentication appears
an odd signal to me, the technical/operational background of which
I'd rather understand in more depth.

-Peter